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Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Challenge: Booker Prize

The aim of this challenge is continue progressing through the annuls of Booker history until I have read every winner and as many of the shortlisted books as possible.

Those books I've read are in bold and those I've reviewed linked through.

1969
Winner

Something to Answer For- P H Newby
Shortlist

Figures in a Landscape – Barry England

The Impossible Object – Nicholas Mosley

The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

The Public Image – Muriel Spark

From Scenes Like These –G M Williams

197O
Winner

The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
Shortlist

John Brown’s Body - AL Barker

Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen

Bruno’s Dream-Iris Murdoch

Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel- William Trevor

The Conjunction- T W Wheeler

The Lost BookerWinnerTroubles - JG FarrellShortlistThe Birds on the Trees by Nina BawdenThe Bay of Noon by Shirley HazzardFire From Heaven by Mary RenaultThe Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark The Vivisector by Patrick White

Thanks for commenting, Thomas. I find shortlists endlessly engrossing. There are so many books on there that I discover just by seeing them listed, or get around to reading because I am reminded of them having seen them listed. I want to read all the winners, and then some of the shortlists, but with an extra 6 each year I don't think there's much liklihood of reading ever getting through them all!

32 is not too shabby at all! 2 more than me anyway! What are your favourites of the ones you have read?